Learning Disabilities are often based on different ways of learning. The TLD Video Program, a series of eight videos, includes topics dealing with motivation, organization, reading concepts, math strategies, multisensory learning techniques and science. The series was produced with outstanding master teachers in Special Education to help professionals working with kindergarten through adults teach LD students across the curriculum. The tapes provide a good in-service for teachers who have mainstreamed LD students in their classroom and are excellent for programming with parent groups.

"Superb! This easy-to-watch series helps
educators understand the important characteristics and problems
of LD students. It is packed with timely, useful information and
practical, innovative teaching ideas."-Jamie Williams, M.Ed., Coordinator, The Learning
TherapistGraduate Certificate
Program, Southern Methodist University

Dr. Birsh, series editor, presents an overview of the TLD VIDEO
PROGRAM with a brief look at all the educators in action. This
tape will help teachers recognize learning disabilities. It
explains learning problems and demonstrates practical teaching
strategies. Ideal for the general classroom teacher with mainstreamed
LD students and as a concise preview for the entire series.
(33 minutes, Teachers K-Adult) click
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Motivation: How to Encourage
the Learning Disabled Student Margaret Jo Shepherd, Ed.D. Recently retired
as Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Learning
Disabilities Program, Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Shepherd explains techniques teachers can use to instill
motivation in learning disabled children so that these students
can move from a feeling of learned helplessness to one of confidence,
raising their self-esteem. She illustrates why children who
struggle to learn have such a fragile sense of themselves. Her
goal is to encourage teachers and parents to inspire students
to work for the satisfaction learning rather than from a desire
for approval.
(30 minutes, Teachers K-Adult) click
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Connie Burkhalter tells why study skills need to be organized
and takes the viewer one step at a time through procedures that
will help break old habits and build effective, new ways to
learn. These essential thinking tools, once applied, will help
the LD student cope with note-taking, classroom listening, studying
and completing homework - usually insurmountable tasks. We know
what the student needs to know - this tells how they can do
it.
(40 minutes, K-College) click
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Mathematics
Learning Strategies
Jeannette Fleischner, Ed.D. Former Professor of Education,
Department of Special Education Teachers College, Columbia
University; Former President of the Council for Exceptional
Children's Division of Learning Disabilities.
Katherine Garnett, Ed.D., Associate Professor/Coordinator
of Learning Disabilities Program, Department of Special
Education Hunter College, City University of New York;
Editor of Division of Learning Disabilities Times (Council for Exceptional Children).

Drs. Fleischner and Garnett explain how LD students actually
solve math problems and give practical tips on how to get at
the root causes of their math errors. With demonstrations of
specific strategies, the tape covers problem solving, basic
arithmetic, and makes points about number systems. (55 minutes,
K-8) click here
to order

Science for
the Senses
Ira Kanis, Ed.D. Associate Professor of Science,
City of New York Public Schools Hunter College, City
University of New York

As a former Assistant to the Director of Science for the City
of New York Public Schools, he was responsible for city wide
pedagogical functions relating to Science Curriculum and Instructional
Development. Dr. Kanis has written extensively about methods
of science instruction for the classroom teacher. Dr. Kanis
shows why science is particularly good multisensory subject
for the LD student. He takes teachers through two lively, hands-on
scientific experiments, which also stress the LD student's use
of math and the language arts skills in the inquiry and process
of science. He engagingly demonstrates how the scientific method
can be applied to day-to-day problem solving situations with
elementary and middle school students.
(43 minutes, Grades 4-10)
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Multisensory Social StudiesMargo Mastropieri, Ph.D. Professor of
Special Education Purdue University Co-author:
-Teaching Students Ways to Remember: Strategies for
Learning Mnemonically (Brookline Books) -Effective Instruction
for Special Education (Little Brown)
Dr. Mastropieri, who specializes in strategies for teaching
exceptional students, uses the model called reconstructive elaborations
(mimetics, keywords, pegwords), to show how various skills can
be adopted and mastered so that the LD student can confidently
and successfully become involved in social studies. By using
this model, content area information becomes more meaningful,
familiar and concrete and, therefore, more memorable and ready
for use in the regular classroom.
(28 minutes, Grades 4-10) click here
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Training
the Brain to Learn
Jane Healy, Ph.D. Author: Endangered Minds: Why Our Children
Don't Learn (Simon & Schuster, 1990)
Dr. Healy covers a wide variety of topics about the brain's
development and how it relates to the difficulties encountered
by the LD student. Practical guidelines for teachers who want
to understand how study skills develop and help students acquire
them. She offers insight and hope in talking about why some
students' brains seem naturally "disorganized", what skills
should we expect at different ages and how to deal with "memory
problems". Maladaptive learning skills can be eliminated if
the brain is exposed to new dimensions and ways of learning.
She explains how.
(30 minutes, Teachers of All Grade Levels) click
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Concept Acquisition
and Early Learning (Part I)
Reading Comprehension: Interactive Strategies (Part II)
Anne E. Boehm, Ph.D. Teachers College, Columbia UniversityPart I: Dr. Boehm shows how
a firm grounding in basic concepts such as position, size, and
quantity can enable the learner to move to more complex situations
and problems. She demonstrates how the strategy interview can
be used to find out why the LD student cannot grasp basic concepts,
often used when teachers give directions.
(30 minutes, K-Adult) click
here to order